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Stone vessels

Aurélia Masson

Stone vessels from Naukratis are a group of
finds that is rarely discussed in scholarship, as is generally the
case for stone vessels from post-New Kingdom Egyptian sites.
Calcite vessels and waste products from their production form a
large proportion of the corpus. Most bear witness to local workshop
activity between the end of the 26th and the beginning of the 27th
dynasty focused on the production of alabastra probably intended
primarily for export. Various other shapes made from a variety of
stones were also recovered at the site, including copies of
Egyptian and non-Egyptian ceramic forms as well as Egyptian and
Greek large ritual basins and vessels with more domestic uses.